Janis Ian Quotes

I was interviewed for a Grammy television show, and they asked me about Nashville, and I talked for three minutes and when I finished, I was teared up. The whole room was crying. Nashville has given me a home, where I never had a home before.

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• Comfort and luxury are usually the chief requirements of life for your ego - its top priorities tend to be accumulations, achievements, and the approval of others.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Life
  • Ego
  • Luxury

• I was in graduate school. I had a birth control accident and went to get the morning after pill.

  

  Karen Bender
  • School
  • Control
  • Morning

• Billionaires like the Koch brothers, casino mogul Sheldon Adelson, and political puppet master Karl Rove should not be able to buy our elections. Secret money should not be able to drown out the voices of the American people and sell our Democracy to the highest bidder.

  

  Hank Johnson
  • People
  • Money
  • American

• At some particular time, when I was 14 years old, I've done something that people didn't expect.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • People
  • Time
  • Done

• I normally don't endorse in Democratic primaries.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Democratic
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• I wasn't interested at all in doing a documentary. I was not a public figure.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Doing
  • Figure
  • Documentary

• If cattle and horses, or lions, had hands, or were able to draw with their feet and produce the works which men do, horses would draw the forms of gods like horses, and cattle like cattle, and they would make the gods' bodies the same shape as their own.

  

  Xenophanes
  • Men
  • Hands
  • Feet

• One of the problems in the Navy is that tradition of being captain of the ship. And an awful lot of people can be retired in the Navy, get over it, get a life, and go on. But there's a lot who can't. And when they have to give up the ship, they got to be captain of something, every single day.

  

  Patricia Schroeder
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• I wasn't being bullied at school at this point. I had a group of friends, and I was isolated because I wasn't communicating with my parents. I wasn't telling them what I was going through.

  

  Randy Harrison
  • School
  • Friends
  • Parents

• I wish my teammates, coaches and the entire Lions organization all the best.

  

  Barry Sanders
  • Wish
  • Best
  • Organization

• In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.

  

  Florence King
  • Moral
  • Snake
  • Bee

• I am grateful that as a reporter and as an anchor, people have allowed me to share their stories.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • People
  • Stories
  • Anchor

• My theory is that balance is key - nothing in excess.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Balance
  • Theory
  • Key

• When the Americans were trying to conquer the Navajos, they felt this need to capture Canyon de Chelly like it was the Navajo capital. It was a meeting place and a sanctuary of last refuge. To control Canyon de Chelly was to control the Navajo people.

  

  Hampton Sides
  • People
  • Trying
  • Control

• I'm learning to accept everything that I am. I've accepted that I'm not going to be a stick-thin-model kind of girl. When I was 14, I was tall and spindly. By the time I turned 18, I had become a woman, and my body's not going to go back to what it looked like when I was 14.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Time
  • Girl
  • Learning

• Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Men
  • School
  • House

• If you gay, you gay. Like, that's your preference, you know?

  

  Fat Joe
  • You
  • Know
  • Gay

• I know a lot of celebrity types go for Kabbalah and Scientology. But why pay 10 per cent of your earnings to someone when it's all common sense: treat others as you'd like to be treated yourself.

  

  Gail Porter
  • Why
  • Know
  • Yourself

• My parents opened a bank account for me when I was really little, and I think I paid for some of my university education with my savings. I've always been a bit of a saver.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Think
  • Parents
  • Education

• I have good genes, and I also do lots of exercises.

  

  Leroy Hood
  • Good

• I'm really bad at memorizing, so that's one of my big struggles in an audition setting, with the lines.

  

  Matt Lanter
  • Bad

• I like Instagram - it's a good way to keep up with my friends without having to text or call all the time, and I really like Snapchat.

  

  Nick Jonas Jonas Brothers
  • Up
  • Time
  • Good

• I had a friend who had two degrees of being made up: when invited I would say 'Can I make up?' and he would say 'Oh yes - tinted?', or he would say, 'Oh yes - clotted?'

  

  Quentin Crisp
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  • Friend

• I was interviewed for a Grammy television show, and they asked me about Nashville, and I talked for three minutes and when I finished, I was teared up. The whole room was crying. Nashville has given me a home, where I never had a home before.

  

  Janis Ian
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